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...Swart little Cubans who live between Cape Guancs and Cape Hicacos assembled on the shore of Matanzas Bay (60 mi. east of Havana) last week to behold a marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water...
...haired dasher Frank Wycoff of Southern California who was recently clocked over a Hundred in one-tenth of a second less than Tolan's time but whose record was too recent to be considered by the Federation last week. It did make a lot of difference, however, to swart George Simpson of Ohio State, called the Buckeye Comet, who also had turned in a time one-tenth of a second faster than Tolan's. When the Federation disallowed his record because he had made it with starting blocks, Simpson threw away his blocks and went out to practice...
...Brownlo William Byrde The Lord of Salisbury his Pavin Galiardo Orlando Gibbons Fugue in D minor Polonaise in C minor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor Johann Sebastian Bach Harpsichord: Ralph Kirkpatrick '31 II Sonatine for Flute, in D major Harry Seaver '33 Flute; E. DuBois Swart '32 Pianoforte: Harry Seaver '33 III Violin Sonata in A minor Clair Leonard '23 Violin: Malcolm Holmes '28 Pianoforte: Clair Leonard '23 IV Variations on a Theme by Haydn (opus 56b) for two pianos Johannes Brahms...
...House of Representatives last week, New York's short, swart, voluble Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia arose and began: "It is again my unpleasant duty to bring charges against a Federal judge. . . ." It was Mr. LaGuardia's third such speech in three years. Newsgatherers conferred among themselves about the advisability of bestowing upon him some such title as Watch-Dog of the Judiciary...
...roof on Palm Island between Miami and Miami Beach, built a wall around it like a fortress. He attempted to win local favor by enormous dinners to all who would come, $20 tips to tradesmen. He served champagne regularly, barely sipped his own glass. About him were always seven swart Sicilians, his bodyguard. He collected his family about him, his Irish wife Mae, his brothers Ralph ("Bottles") and Matthew, tried desperately to live the life of a retired gentleman...